ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY

Electronic Educational Sciences Journal (EJEDUS) declares that it does not accept any unethical work that includes ethical violations such as misuse of others' work, conflict of interest, and that all legal rights are reserved.
The similarity rate of candidate articles must be uploaded to the journal by the authors. In addition, the responsible author must upload the similarity rate declaration file and declare that there is no plagiarism in the article. Candidate articles are also examined by the journal secretariat in terms of similarity with the Ithenticate program. Articles exceeding the similarity rate determined by the journal are returned to the authors.
In case of any ethical complaint for published articles within 12 months, the editorial board examines the article. Documents related to the relevant complaint must be sent to the editorial board via the journal e-mail.

The Journal of Electronic Educational Sciences (EJEDUS) has taken the "Journal Editors' Code of Conduct" one by one under the titles of editorial board, referee and author responsibilities and scientific principles and stated the "Journal Editors' Code of Conduct" (COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors) under the title of publication ethics and misconduct declaration below.

Editors' Responsibilities

The publication decisions to be followed by the editor, editorial board, field editor, confidentiality, information and responsibilities regarding disagreements are stated below. The editor, editorial board and field editors working in EJEDUS are obliged to comply with the following responsibilities.

Publishing Decisions: The editor is responsible for the publication decision of the articles sent to the journal as a result of the examination of the field editors and the evaluation of the referees. In the decisions taken during the publication process of the publications, the editors evaluate the authors' ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, sect, nationality, political views or article suggestions without taking into consideration. The editor's decision is based on the purpose of the journal, scope, originality and importance of the study, validity and up-to-dateness of the study as stated by EJEDUS.

Confidentiality: The editorial board cannot share scientific studies sent to EJEDUS with any person or institution other than the author responsible for the study, referees, members of the publication board and the publishing organization.

Information and disagreements: The unpublished content of the scientific study sent to EJEDUS cannot be used for their own research purposes by the members of the editorial board and those who assume the responsibility for the publication of the relevant study without the author's permission.

· Responsibilities of Referees

The responsibilities regarding the duration, confidentiality, impartiality standards, references, information and disagreements to be followed by referees are stated below. Referees who accept the evaluation process of the articles accepted by the editor/editorial board of EJEDUS are obliged to comply with the following responsibilities.

Duration: In cases where the referees do not find the content of the article proposal sent for evaluation sufficient or believe that they will not be able to evaluate it within the evaluation period recommended to the referee, they should notify the editor and withdraw from the evaluation process.

Confidentiality: The article proposal sent to the referees should be considered a confidential document and information about its content should not be disclosed to third parties.

Impartiality standards: The evaluations made by the referees should be made in accordance with impartiality standards. Criticism of the author's personality is not appropriate. The opinions and suggestions made by the referees should be supported by justifications in accordance with scientific principles and should be expressed in a clear and understandable manner.

References indication: In cases where previously published scientific studies related to the proposal articles sent to the referees are not included in the proposal article, the referees may request that the relevant studies be included in the proposal article. The reference indications of the citations from the sources in accordance with scientific principles and spelling rules should be examined by the referees and any incorrect situations should be indicated. The referees who evaluate the proposal article should inform the editor, editorial board or field editors about the similarity or originality between the previously published studies and the proposal article.

Information and disagreements: Unpublished articles submitted to referees for evaluation should not be used for personal benefit after being reviewed by referees, and data or ideas specific to the research content should not be taken into account. The authors, companies, institutions, and conflicts of interest arising from benefits or harms in the studies submitted to referees for evaluation should not be taken into account.

Authors' Responsibilities

The reporting standards that authors must comply with, originality, multiple, dysfunctional or repetitive studies, references, authorship, data access and protection, and responsibilities for basic errors in published studies are stated below. By the editor/editorial board of EJEDUS